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Kansas University Weekly.
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The last issue of the Drury Mirror is decidedly political in tone.
The Havemyer family have given Columbia $ 5,000,000 for the finest chemistry building in America.
College Life says the Normal and Emporia College are to have a field-day akin to the Olympian Games.
The Russian Prince, Wolkeneski, who has been at Chicago, is giving a series of lectures on Russian History and Literature, at Cornell.
Silver and Gold tells of very interesting and valuable work which is being done in the Department of Pedagogy at Colorado University.
I hear that the cathode is being used very extensively by the Englishmen. By means of its rays they are now able to see through a joke. - Ex.
The Interstate Normal League Oratorical Contest at Warrensburgh, Mo., last Saturday night, was won by Wisconsin, Mr. Bradford of Kansas Normal being a close second.
The Washburn lecture course association has been put upon a share-holding basis and the number of shares increased to 100. They have elected directors for next year. It is to be presumed that they will have a first class lecture course.
During the past year the University of Wisconsin has given fifty-seven courses of university extension lectures, in sixteen different departments of study. In the announcement of the ninth annual summer school special attention is called to the course on Library Science.
The Midland shows strong indications of work done by members of the faculty, as do many of our exchanges. No doubt this help is appreciated by the editors of the papers, but if there is to be the life and interest characteristic of student work, the students must not only do the work but control it. Better an occasional error than a dead level of propriety. The greatest factor of Yale's athletic success is supreme student management.
The University of Colorado and the State School of Mines dissaproving of "the growing practice of making Memorial Day the occasion for all sorts of games, wheelmen's races and the like, and believing that this day, which has been set apart as a day for sacred memories of the gallant dead who gave their lives that the nation might live, should cease to be desecrated in any such way" have given up the ball game arranged for that day, although they had expected to receive from it the money of the season.
The Aesculapian of the University Medical College at Kansas City, which is usually so full of scientific, technical matter, has in the last issue a most enjoyable commencement address by Gov. W. J. Stone. Gov. Stone completely captivated the football boys by his charming "interstate" speech after the game last Thanksgiving, and the present address is in an equally happy vein. The University Medical College graduated fifty-two doctors and the New Woman Medical College graduated one. The latter now has young ladies in attendance from all over the United States. The University maintains a glee club called the "Sing-Sing" Club.
Last week's Student's Herald, of Kansas State Agricultural College, devotes more than half its space to the splendid annual open session of the ladies' literary society. Some years ago a few of the girls of the Agricultural College started an organization for a most commendable object and one most popular in the school—we refer to the somewhat famous "Company 2." To the surprise of the students this was promptly vetoed by the faculty on the ground that it was a rather exclusive clique of the would-be upper ten style and the spirit of such a thing was not to be tolerated in the institution. Well, they had to take measures to prevent the overcrowding of the above mentioned meeting, and the institution, with about half our enrollment has four of the best literary societies in the west.